#stolen

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#kisses #stolen #sweetest

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#because #candy #conspires #daily #daily life

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#build #built #each #five #gradually

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income. ↗

— Joe Miller

#continue #dependent #example #for example #got

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#had #happened #him #how #i

Go to the devil Harry." I turned away, then looked back over my shoulder. "But you already have, haven't you? ↗

— Susan Higginbotham

#susan-higginbotham #the-stolen-crown #change

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ↗

— Mary Daly

#naming #power #stolen #us #women

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#acknowledge #analyst #being #content #easy

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#being #civil #civil war #crusade #economic